This ideology celebrates willpower, yet scientific research challenges how much of it we have when making dietary choices.
This is not so much a pro-market position as an anti-democratic one. There is more to politics than market versus state.
In an atmosphere when anyone can close down the conversation by saying “I feel uncomfortable”, rational discussion becomes impossible.
None of these qualities necessarily stop you wanting things, knowing what you enjoy, and being able to weigh up how to decide.
The Conservative priority must instead be to ensure health policy is guided by experts in the field of nutrition, not enthusiastic amateurs spouting sound bites instead of science.
The share that candidates take of new entrants to the electorate will help to decide the most marginal seats.
Children’s health is too often weaponised as a justification for pushing through all sorts of unnecessary new punitive taxes and regulations.